The News-Press and Naples Daily News reporter Charlie Whitehead is a resident of Fort Myers Beach. He moved to San Carlos Island, at the foot of the Matanzas Pass Bridge to Fort Myers Beach in 1985.

As the winds and waves slammed the Southwest Florida coastline, hundreds, if not thousands, of residents worried Hurricane Ian may whip away their cars, their homes, their final breaths. The ominous ...

Hurricane Ian survivors from Lee County, Florida, traveled to Washington, D.C. to demand answers about delayed recovery funds. The group is pushing back against proposed federal cuts and privatization ...

A Fort Myers Beach reporter recounts his personal experience with Hurricane Ian, which destroyed his family home of nearly 60 years. The reporter and his neighbors rescued a trapped couple from their ...